The Bowdoin Prizes.

The subjects for the Bowdoin Prize Dissertations are this year as follows:

GROUP I.1. The influence of Herbert Spencer's Philosophy upon recent thought.

2. The value of Ethical Study in its practical relation to the conduct of life.

3. Anarchism as a scientific doctrine.

4. The Craft Guilds of the Middle Ages.

5. The History and Development of the Mark theory.

6. A Comparison of the Estates General of France with the Parliament in England during the fourteenth century.

7. The fanatical element in the German Reformation.

8. The Grammar School Curriculum.

9. A History of Tammany Hall.

GROUP II (A).1. The belief in immortality among the Greeks of the fifth and fourth centuries B. C.

2. The life and works of Alcaeus.

3. The Constitution of Sparta.

4. The water supply of Ancient Rome.

5. The accession of the Flavian dynasty.

6. Cicero's translation from the Greek compared with the originals.

7. The character and sources of Varro's conception of Education.

A translation into Greek from Landor's Pericles and Aspasia Letters 162 and 163.

A dissertation in Latin of from 2,000 to 2500 words on any subject at the pleasure of the competitor.

GROUP II (B).The passages set for translation are:

1. Parkman's Conspiracy of Pontiac, Chapter I, beginning, "Of the Indian character much has been written foolishly" and ending "his look of grim defiance," to be translated into Greek.

2. John Henry Newman's The Idea of a University (Essay on Christianity and Letters) from "In the country which has been" through "the best guarantees for intellectual progress," to be translated into Latin.

GROUP III.1. The necessity of assuming the existence of an ether.

2. The advance in the study of periodic currents of electricity.

3. The modern theories of the galvanic cells.

4. Chemotropic movements of plants and animals.

5. The relations of aquatic organisms to the purity of water supplies.

6. The bearing of recent investigations in the Algonkian and Cambrian formations upon the permanence of the North American continent.

There are nine prizes offered. The conditions under which prizes are awarded are the same as governed the awards of last year, and may be found in the Catalogue for 1893-94.

Besides the Bowdoin Prizes, the Dante Prize, the Sargent Prize, the George B. Sohier Prize, the Paine Prizes, the Toppan Prizes, the Sumner Prize, the Sales Prize, and the Bennett Prize are offered. Altogether there are offered for award by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences eighteen prizes with a maximum total of $1890.

Subjects suggested, but not prescribed, for the Sumner Prize are: The scientific treatment of city slums; the housing of the working classes; the child problem in great cities: history and prospects of labor organizations in the United States; the duty of the states to the laboring classes.

The subjects for the Bennett Prize are: The proper relations of the United States with Hawaii; how should postmasters be selected?

The subjects for the Toppan Prize are: Local government in England in 1600; separation of Church and State in the United States; how far is the extension of democracy modifying methods of direct and indirect taxation.